The good, the illogical, the stupid

Rating: 4/10 (5 December 2013)

The good first: The visuals are very well done, particularly the way the Jaegers and Kaiju blend with the environment. Art style and costume/set work is also good, crew seems to have done a great job all around.
I leave many things out for the sake of storytelling but these issues are ridiculous and detracted from my enjoyment of the film: The "obsolete" Jaeger is the only one powered by a nuclear reactor and toting plasma cannons. I'll repeat that: the old, outdated machine is the one with nuclear-powered plasma cannons. It also is based on analog systems, which makes sense given that it was built after the year 2000.
The only hope for humanity is defunded in favor of a wall-building strategy. Because building 20,000+ miles of wall is cheaper than building robots to defend it. Oh, and walls are a strategic solution to invaders - not a tactical advantage for active defense forces.
Let's fight the enemy with our robo-fists instead of the gigantic collapsible swords we've been carrying around this entire time. This makes sense because bare fists were the weapon of choice right up until the invention of guns; nobody used swords or other metal weapons because they're terrible at cutting through organic material.
Let's fight and save ourselves with the incredible force of our fire-blasting reactor exhaust which nobody bothered to weaponize on our robot or any other.
Let's destroy a planet-threatening rift in space-time with a single 1.25 Mt warhead, because 12 ft bombs are too big for our giant robots to carry multiple of.
Nuclear weapons are in the form of gigantic backpacks for robots.
Nuclear reactors explode like nuclear weapons when they melt down.
Let's send 20 helicopters to pick up 2 survivors.